Excerpted from the Northern
Colorado Gazette:
Using the same tactics used by “gay” rights activists,
pedophiles have begun to seek similar status arguing their
desire for children
is a sexual orientation no different than heterosexual or homosexuals.
Critics of the homosexual lifestyle have long claimed that
once it became acceptable to identify homosexuality as simply an “alternative
lifestyle” or sexual orientation, logically nothing would be off limits. “Gay”
advocates have taken offense at such a position insisting this would never
happen. However, psychiatrists are now beginning to advocate redefining
pedophilia in the same way homosexuality was redefined several years ago.
In 1973 the American Psychiatric Association declassified
homosexuality from its list of mental disorders. A group of psychiatrists with
B4U-Act recently held a symposium proposing a new definition of pedophilia in
the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders of the APA.
B4U-Act calls pedophiles “minor-attracted people.” The
organization’s website states
its purpose is to, “help mental health professionals learn more about
attraction to minors and to consider the effects of stereotyping, stigma and
fear.”
In 1998 The APA issued a report claiming “that the ‘negative
potential’ of adult sex with children was ‘overstated’ and that ‘the vast
majority of both men and women reported no negative sexual effects from
childhood sexual abuse experiences.”
Pedophilia has already been granted protected status by the
Federal Government. The Matthew Shephard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes
Prevention Act lists “sexual orientation” as a protected class; however, it
does not define the term.
Republicans attempted to add an amendment specifying that
“pedophilia is not covered as an orientation;” however, the amendment was
defeated by Democrats. Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fl) stated that all alternative
sexual lifestyles should be protected under the law. “This bill addresses our
resolve to end violence based on prejudice and to guarantee that all Americans,
regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual
orientation, gender identity, or disability or all of these ‘philias’ and
fetishes and ‘isms’ that were put forward need not live in fear because of who
they are. I urge my colleagues to vote in favor of this rule.”
The White House praised the bill saying, “At root, this
isn’t just about our laws; this is about who we are as a people. This is about
whether we value one another – whether we embrace our differences rather
than allowing them to become a source of animus.”
Earlier this year two psychologists in Canada declared that
pedophilia is a sexual orientation just like homosexuality or heterosexuality.
Van Gijseghem, psychologist and retired professor of the
University of Montreal, told members of Parliament, “Pedophiles are not simply
people who commit a small offense from time to time but rather are grappling
with what is equivalent to a sexual orientation just like another individual
may be grappling with heterosexuality or even homosexuality.”
He went on to say, “True pedophiles have an exclusive
preference for children, which is the same as having a sexual orientation. You
cannot change this person’s sexual orientation. He may, however, remain
abstinent.”
When asked if he should be comparing pedophiles to
homosexuals, Van Gijseghem replied, “If, for instance, you were living in
a society where heterosexuality is proscribed or prohibited and you were told
that you had to get therapy to change your sexual orientation, you would
probably say that that is slightly crazy. In other words, you would not accept
that at all. I use this analogy to say that, yes indeed, pedophiles do not
change their sexual orientation.”
Dr. Quinsey, professor emeritus of psychology at Queen’s
University in Kingston, Ontario, agreed with Van Gijseghem. Quinsey said
pedophiles’ sexual interests prefer children and, “There is no evidence that
this sort of preference can be changed through treatment or through anything
else.”
In July, 2010 Harvard health Publications said, “Pedophilia
is a sexual orientation and unlikely to change. Treatment aims to enable
someone to resist acting on his sexual urges.”
Linda Harvey, of Mission America, said the push for
pedophiles to have equal rights will become more and more common as LGBT groups
continue to assert themselves. “It’s all part of a plan to introduce sex to
children at younger and younger ages; to convince them that normal friendship
is actually a sexual attraction.”
Milton Diamond, a University of Hawaii professor and
director of the Pacific Center for Sex and Society, stated that child
pornography could be beneficial to society because, “Potential sex offenders
use child pornography as a substitute for sex against children.”
Diamond is a distinguished lecturer for the Institute for
the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco. The IASHS openly
advocated for the repeal of the Revolutionary war ban on homosexuals serving in
the military.
The IASHS lists, on its website, a list of “basic sexual
rights” that includes “the right to engage in sexual acts or activities of any
kind whatsoever, providing they do not involve nonconsensual acts, violence,
constraint, coercion or fraud.” Another right is to, “be free of persecution,
condemnation, discrimination, or societal intervention in private sexual
behavior” and “the freedom of any sexual thought, fantasy or desire.” The
organization also says that no one should be “disadvantaged because of
age.”
Sex offender laws protecting children have been
challenged in several states including California, Georgia and Iowa. Sex
offenders claim the laws prohibiting them from living near schools or parks are
unfair because it penalizes them for life.
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